Publisher's Synopsis
Presented here is a multifaceted view of the monsoon - its lore, its societal impact, and its meteorology. The book includes an economic analysis of the value of weather and climate data in developing countries, thorough treatment of monsoon variability on paleoclimate time scales, topographical influences on monsoons and ocean-monsoon interactions, the latest information on the tools being used to predict the variability of monsoons, and much more. Focusing on the Asian monsoon and, in particular, the Indian summer monsoon, the book provides illustrations with ocean circulation charts, data tables on long- term statistics of monsoon precipitation, and precipitation variability.
